Active follow-up with telephone help can reduce deaths in chronic heart …Medical XpressChronic heart failure (CHF) patients are less likely to have died a year after discharge if they are involved in a programme of active follow-up once they have ret…
Renal Transplantation Is Best Treatment Option for Improving Quality of Life …Science Daily (press release)11, 2012) — In people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, …
The California Transplant Donor Network has released details on the people who received organs from CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom. Photo Credit: CHP
San Francisco ChronicleCHP's Kenyon Youngstrom Organ Donation Details ReleasedNBC Bay AreaCHP's Kenyon Youngstrom Organ Donation Details Released. Four lives were changed for the better following the tragic death of CHP officer Kenyon Youngstro…
AFPStudy Questions Daily Asthma MedsABC News (blog)Unlike albuterol, a medicine that opens the airways and is used only to treat symptoms or asthma attacks, patients on inhaled corticosteroids are told to use this medicine even when they are not having…
OncLiveLess Aggressive Surgery Linked to Improved Survival in Older Patients With …OncLivePartial nephrectomy is associated with better overall survival than radical nephrectomy in older patients with early-stage kidney cancer, according to the resul…
Peterborough hospital passes organ donor registration target on first day of …Kawartha Media GroupOne organ donor has the potential to save eight lives and enhance 75 others through tissue donation. Danielle Dimovski, a double kidney transplant recip…
Jailed Gold Sukh chief dies of heart attackTimes of IndiaJAIPUR: The director of Gold Sukh Trade India limited, Narendra Singh died of a heart attack on Tuesday at the Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital. Singh was in judicial custody since February 2012 fo…
PLoS BlogsQuality of life and treatment of late-stage chronic kidney diseaseMedical XpressIn people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, but for those receiving dialysis,…
Capital Diary: Blood donationGulf TodayABU DHABI: A blood donation campaign was organised by Al Noor Hospitals' group, Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the blood bank of Sheikh Khalifa Medical City by using the mobile blood bank unit. The campaign …